The Discovering Geometry approach improves learning in many ways:
• The developmental focus of Discovering Geometry will help you meet your students where they are and guide them all to a high level of understanding. You'll find many opportunities both to support students whose progress is slower and to challenge more advanced students.
• Discovering Geometry will help you bolster your students' understanding and retention of theorems, definitions, and properties as they perform constructions, measure figures, relate patterns and properties, and discuss their findings.
• Algebra Review exercises—integrated when applicable to the geometry being taught—will make it easy to reinforce your students' skills and keep them on track for continued learning.
• You will build your students' reasoning and proof skills by using the exercises and group activities in the new Developing Proof strand.
•Investigations, visual representations, and opportunities for discussion will enable you to integrate multiple teaching modes into your classroom so that visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners all benefit.
•The real-world applications, puzzles, and extensions in Discovering Geometry will help you motivate students and keep them thinking.
• The book's focus on critical problem-solving skills will help you cultivate a classroom of self-motivated, independent thinkers. Author Michael Serra's extensive classroom experience helped him shape a new approach to teaching geometry. Now in its fourth edition, Discovering Geometry has proven effective in countless classrooms across the country.
Take an Inside Look at Discovering Geometry – An Investigative Approach
Built on his experience in the geometry classroom, author Michael Serra’s Discovering Geometry – An Investigative Approach will engage your students like no other curriculum. Working in cooperative groups, students will dive into problems, make conjectures, present their findings, and engage in high levels of mathematical discourse. Students will find themselves traveling in the footsteps of Pythagoras and Euclid as they build their understanding of major geometric concepts and topics. Throughout their journey, proof will be used to defend their conjectures and to critique the proof presented by their peers.
This webinar will help you learn how to
- Incorporate cooperative learning in your math classroom
- Use the investigative approach to deepen your students’ understanding of geometry
- Use construction tools, patty paper, and The Geometer’s Sketchpad® to appeal to students with a variety of learning styles
Like all Kendall Hunt curriculum, our Webinars are designed to be hands-on, engaging, and interactive. They also feature dedicated time to ask questions of a Kendall Hunt curriculum expert.
Click below to register for an Inside Look at Discovering Geometry today!